Keeping up to date with the news can be a challenge, but luckily audiobooks are here to help. From fascinating studies to novels inspired by the news cycle, there’s something for whatever has been piquing your interest lately.

How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. THE DEATH OF TRUTH

The young man is Kailash, from India. His new American friends call him Kalashnikov, AK-47, AK. He takes it all in his stride: he wants to fit in–and more than that, to shine. In the narrative of his years at a university in New York, AK describes the joys and disappointments of his immigrant experience.IMMIGRANT,MONTANA

When Andrei Kaplanâ€™s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. Itâ€™s the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs up his hockey stuff, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother. A TERRIBLE COUNTRY

A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic incomeâ€”a stipend given to every citizenâ€”and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology. In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey examines the UBI movement from many angles. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to interrogate UBIâ€™s intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in expectation of a world with advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labor.GIVE PEOPLE MONEY

Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in BogotĂˇ. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the cityâ€™s guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petronaâ€™s mysterious ways. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girlsâ€™ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal.GIVE PEOPLE MONEY